In the early hours of December 24, the deadliest launch fire in Bangladesh’s history wreaked havoc on the launch MV Abhijan 10, burning so many people alive; as of December 28 afternoon, the death toll from the tragedy stood at 42, with more than 50 people still missing.

It is encouraging to see our economy recovering well from the pandemic, to the point where the government’s finance division is projecting

The year 2021 has been significant in climate change discussions, in a decade that is already quite important in terms of tackling the climate crisis.

DSA is incompatible with our fundamental rights

When homecoming should be a joyous occasion, it is mostly the opposite in case of the female migrant workers of Bangladesh.

American geographer Jared Diamond makes an interesting point in his bestseller “Guns, Germs, and Steel.”

This is what we know: It was a recorded telephone call. The caller is a male, and so is the recipient.

Since the first Omicron case of Covid-19 was detected in Karnataka on December 2, instances of the most rapidly mutating and contagious variant of the disease have been on the rise across India.

It seems like deja vu in Bangladeshi politics. As President Abdul Hamid is holding dialogues with various political parties to seek suggestions for members to form the search committee for the next Election Commission, it has brought back the memories of 2012 and 2017.

So is inaction that allows those to pass

There is a profound sense of déjà vu as we approach the end of 2021 and look forward to what the new year will bring.

It is certainly good news that Malaysia is again set to hire Bangladeshi migrant workers, after a three-year hiatus since 2018 imposed by the then Malaysian prime minister.

It was midday on October 6, 2018. A woman was sitting under a mahogany tree at Sreemangal Upazila Health Complex in Moulvibazar. Another woman was holding a newborn wrapped in a blanket.

It has been less than two years since phrases like “flatten the curve,” “contact tracing,” “social distancing,” and many others related to the Covid-19 pandemic entered the lexicon and became part of everyday communication.

A small incident took place at a school in Burdwan in 1944. A class teacher of Grade 7 was wrongly reprimanding a student, accusing him of stacking all the high benches of the classroom against the short ones the previous evening, when a lanky boy stood up and said, “It was not Abanti, it was me.” Impressed by the boy’s moral courage, the teacher excused him.

It’s shocking to see the Election Commission show such disdain towards election law

A decreasing volume of annual natural gas production from the gas fields of Bangladesh means that the country is moving towards joining the net energy importers club sooner than one would have liked to think.

The fact that at least 2.5 million children of school-going age are not receiving formal education is deeply concerning. As this daily has recently reported—

The world is being plagued by a global pandemic, climate change, biodiversity loss, rising demand for food and scarcity of natural resources, to name a few. Our irresponsible consumption and production are the root causes of humanity’s multifarious problems.

We couldn’t stand to watch it so we kept our heads down, crying . . . We begged them not to do it. They didn’t care.